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Bob Hobbes
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Maker: Garvey, Joe
Garvey's cartoon portrait of Bob Hobbes, from a series of thirty-six pencil drawings made in Syria, Tripoli and Lebanon in 1942 of members of 15 Platoon 'C' Company, 2/32 Battalion, Lebanon 1942. Hobb...ART91855
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Bobonaro
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Maker: Bush, Charles
A typical Portuguese Timor town. Of Portuguese architecture with an old world savour, they were charming with their buildings of white walls, red tiled roofs and massive encircling ramparts. Bobonaro ...ART26348
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Bob Taylor
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Maker: Garvey, Joe
Garvey's cartoon portrait of Bob Taylor, from a series of thirty-six pencil drawings made in Syria, Palestine and Lebanon in 1942 of members of 15 Platoon 'C' Company, 2/32 Battalion, Lebanon 1942. Ta...ART91878
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Boer War - Last war - this war (Sapper Harold Knudsen)
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
Sapper Harold Ferdinand Knudsen (NX11833) served with the 2/1st Australian Forestry Company in Scotland during the Second World War. Note Knudsen is wearing ribbon bar indicating his previous service ...ART26227
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Bofor gun, HMT "Laconia"
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Maker: Norton, Frank
One of the two Bofors anti-aircraft guns mounted on the after deck of the troopship SS "Laconia". Note gunpost on deck above, Red Sea.ART21752
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Bofors being repaired
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Two men are depicted repairing Bofor anti-aircraft guns at 7 Mile Drome, New Guinea.ART29976
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Bofors gun in action
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Maker: Wood, C Dudley
The subject is the crew of a Bofors anti-aircraft gun in their sand-bagged gun position in action against enemy aircraft. The crew consists of six men in metal helmets, naked to the waist. They occu...ART30158
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Bofors Gun on the hilltop
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Maker: Dargie, William
Two soldiers standing on the ridge of a hilltop in New Guinea. A Bofors Gun is beside them, while storm clouds fill the sky above. Dargie noted, "Manned by Americans. One of the smaller ack-ack guns ...ART22376
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Bofors gunpit
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Maker: Bush, Charles
View of gun and gun position in Melbourne's Anti-aircraft defences. In the background is the coaling tower of North Melbourne Railway yards. To the extreme right of the picture is a installed predicto...ART25817
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Bofors gun position
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Maker: Dargie, William
Scene near Ratnap airstrip, showing Indian soldiers, tents and a bunker. Part of the Aerodrome Defence, this gun is manned by Indian A.A gunners, Ratnap, India.ART23557
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Bofors gun site
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Maker: Baird, John
Bombardier Les Barrett, Dave Ritchie, and Gunner Don 'Stork' Hill (l-r), RAA, are depicted standing near a Bofors anti-aircraft gunART27870
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Bofors instruction
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Members of the Volunteer Defence Corps receiving instructions of a Bofors Anti-Aircraft gun, Tasmania.ART25800
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Bofors on the railway dump
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Maker: Bush, Charles
View from the Railway yards of Bofor Anti-aircraft gun L1, Melborne.ART25763
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Bogged - To Oro Bay by jeep
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Maker: Nicholls, John
A bogged jeep which was on its way to Oro Bay is depicted. This work was drawn by soldier artist Lieutenant John Nicholls, NX160003, 2nd Australian Jungle Trunk-Line Maintenance Section, during his se...ART93255
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Boiler cleaner, HMAS Cairns, Bombay
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Maker: Norton, Frank
HMAS "Cairns" alongside the dockyard wall of Royal Indian Dockland, Bombay. Secured to "Cairns" are HMS "Tulip" (English corvette) and HMIS "Madras" (Australian-built corvette of Indian Navy). Left fo...ART21274
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Bomana War Cemetery
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
In course of construction, 1st Australian Graves Registration Unit at work. The number of graves in the cemetery when the picture was painted, 1944 - was 655 Australians and 8 members of the Papuan In...ART23879
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Bombarded landscape, Tarakan
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Sketch for painting showing troops ascending Tank knoll among broken tanks. A torn and twisted oil tank forms a frame through which the artist looks.ART25440
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Bombardier Les Barrett
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Maker: Baird, John
Portrait of Bombardier Leslie George 'Les' Barrett, NX132451, Royal Australian Artillery, depicted writing at his desk. Beside him on the bunk his rifle and kit are layed out ready for inspection.ART27879
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Bombardment and assault on Green Beach, Brookton Peninsula
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Maker: Flett, James
Showing the smoke screen being laid from the air, and landing barges going in to land. The assault was carried out by the 2/17th Australian Infantry Battalion, North West Borneo, 1945.ART23355
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Bombardment, Balikpapan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts the bombardment of beaches immediately prior to landing at Balikpapan. Douglas Watson joined the AIF in 1943 and was an official war artist for Australia, serving in Australia, New Guinea and ...ART22992
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Bombardment of Labuan
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Maker: Flett, James
The scene looking north from the upper deck of HMAS Kanimbla during the naval bombardment prior to the assault on Labuan on the 10th June 1945.ART25877
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Bombardment of Lingkas harbour, Tarakan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Preliminary sketch of large rising plumes of dark smoke.ART29791
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Bomb crater
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Maker: Koehne, Kurt Casper Irwin
Depicts a local Malaysian person swimming in a bomb crater on Labuan, off the coast of Borneo.ART96207
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Bomb crater, Noemfoor
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
This work depicts a bomb crater in Noemfoor, Papua, Indonesia.ART23813
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[Bomb damaged building]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Scene depicting bomb damaged building, with figures in the foreground looking on. This image may be of bomb damaged buildings in Europe, and a story illustration for the 'Australian Women's Weekly' wh...ART96241
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[Bomb damaged Destroyer in harbour]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Scene depicting a ship in harbour with smoke billowing out from the rear of the ship. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was a war correspondent, painter, cartoonist and illustrator. Du...ART96239
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Bomb Dive
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
'Bomb Dive' attempts to express the tense vibrant moment of an aircraft hurtling and screaming downward. It is a life-size composition. In the artist's words: "The suggestion of an aircraft cockpit is...ART27579
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Bomb Dump
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Dispersed in a cutting through the jungle, the bombs are conveyed to the airstrip for loading on the small trolleys and drawn by a tractor, seen right middle distance. A plane on the strip awaiting lo...ART22422
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Bomb dumps, RAAF
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
This is a rough sketch of a bomb dump in Port Moresby during the Second World War.ART31016
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Bombed area, Yokohama
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Maker: Goodchild, John
This drawing shows the devastation caused by incendiaries in an Allied bombing raid in 1945. Concrete structures were the only buildings surviving after two hours intense bombing. After the surrender,...ART22803
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Bombed building in the Blitz
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Maker: Bayliss, Clifford
A building in London that was destroyed during the London Blitz is depicted. This was a common sight during the Second World War Blitz – a defining time for the English population, especially Londoner...ART93186
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Bombed buildings
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Sketch of a man sitting outside residential buildings next to a group of unfinished palm trees.ART29811
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Bombed buildings
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Sketch of buildlings, trees and people in a town.ART29810
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Bombed house in Elasson
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Maker: Dargie, William
This is a watercolour sketch of a bombed house in the Greek town of Elasson. Two men stand in the foreground of the image. Elasson was on the line of withdrawal of ANZAC Corps from Greece in 1941.ART23979
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Bombed house in Yerania village, Greece
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Maker: Dargie, William
Described in the Official War History as 'Yannina', and also known as Ioannina, the Greek town pictured here experienced the fortunes of war on several occasions during the 1939-45 conflicts. Captured...ART23978
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Bombed house near the air strip, Iraklion, Crete
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Maker: Dargie, William
The town Iraklion is described in the Official War History as Heraklion. Heraklion was one of the points where German air-borne troops were landed in the invasion of Crete. The 2/14th Australian Infan...ART24042
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Bombed oil tanks
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Maker: Friend, Donald
The effects of bombardment prior to the landing of the 7th Australian Division in Balikpapan, Borneo, 1945.ART22909
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Bomber Crash, Rabaul
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
This is a semi-abstract composition combining exterior and interior views of a crashed aircraft in flames. This is a representation of a crash of a Lockheed Hudson on take-off for aerial reconnaissanc...ART28377.001
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Bomber Crash, Rabaul
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
This is a representation of crash of a Lockheed Hudson on take-off for aerial reconnaissance.ART28377.002
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[Bomber crew]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Scene depicting two men, Bomber crew, in uniforms and protective clothing. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was a war correspondent, painter, cartoonist and illustrator. During the Se...ART96240
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Bombers pass over
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
Boston bombers returning from a mission in the Wewak area, pass over Dumpu Strip in the Ramu Valley on their return to base, New Guinea.ART25175
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Bombing ridge at Wewak (seen from Cape Moem)
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Maker: Thompson, Robert
Pencil sketch of a bombing ridge at Wewak, viewed from a distance at Cape Moem. In the foreground is a stretch of calm water, while the ridge features a hut, puffs of smoke and above this in the sky ...ART28716
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Bombing wreckage, Koepang
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a scene of destruction of a building and a wrecked vehicles, Timor.ART26138
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Bombs on Lae
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a bomber flying over peninsula with explosions on the ground, Lae, New Guinea. Hotes for a later painting.ART21324
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Bombs on Lae
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Maker: Dargie, William
Sketch of a bomber flying over the Huon Peninsula with explosions smoking on the ground.ART21323
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Bombs on Lae strip
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Maker: Dargie, William
Sketch of an aerial attack of bombs falling on Lae airfield during a straf by Australian Beaufighters. Japanese bombers are burning on the ground, Lae, New Guinea, 1943.ART25024
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Bombs on Lae strip
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Maker: Dargie, William
Sketch of RAAF beaufighters bombing the Japanese drome at Lae, New Guinea.ART23174
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Bombs on the Mole, Salum
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Maker: Dargie, William
Dargie noted, "A distance view of one of Jerry's visitations. Just above the Mole, the coast road zig-zagged steeply up the escarpment, and here the enemy, if luck were with him, might catch a closel...ART90176
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Bomb thrower
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon
Depicts a soldier in uniform with a grenade in one hand that he is about to throw. A bronze edition was cast in 1985.ART26394
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Bongawan Bridge
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Maker: Flett, James
Showing troops of 24th Australian Infantry Brigade crossing the river at Bongawan by means of portion of a destroyed railway bridge and a ladder. The structure crossing the river in the background is ...ART25882
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"Booby trap...d'yer reckon?" drawing for an illustration in 'Khaki and Green' 1943
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
Two soldiers looking in bewilderment at a Christmas pudding sitting on a wall. War damaged buildings, tanks and soldiers in background.ARTI03472
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Boom across channel opening
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A view looking East showing boom across Channel opening. The 9th Division's return on "Queen Mary" with escorting destroyers and cruisers are depicted as they enter Sydney Harbour.ART29874
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Boom defences, Fremantle
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Maker: Norton, Frank
One of three sketches showing aspects of the Boom Gate at Fremantle. This is the first of its kind in Australia and is designed as protection against torpedo attacks. Electricity operated winches ope...ART21763
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Boomerang fighter
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Maker: Hanke, Henry
A Boomerang fighter aircraft standing in front of a hangar, Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, Fisherman's Bend, Melbourne.ART22126
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Boomerang Pilot
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A portrait of a Boomerang Pilot in Papua New Guinea.ART28167.001
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Boom ship
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Maker: Baird, John
Three sailors are depicted on the bow of the harbour defence ship.ART27978
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Boom town, Dafoe
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Boom towns or shanty towns have made their appearance at most of the remote air stations in Canada. Enterprising farmers build and tent these little shacks to the families of Air Force personnel and t...ART23090
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Bootmaker
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
The bootmaker at work at his bench is surrounded with the implements of his trade, and boots in all stages of repair and disrepair. The horseshoes for the heels are on the sloping piece of board on th...ART22863
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Boram night work
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Maker: Thompson, Robert
Painting of a crashed Japanese aircraft. The red hinamoru circle of the Japanese flag is prominent against the dark night sky. The artist, Robert Thompson wrote: "Night Shift, bulldozer pushing wrec...ART28721
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Bos'n's mate (Able Seaman John Burke)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts a portrait of S3196 Able Seaman John F Burke, HMAS Kapunda, bosun's pipe (or call) in hand, pipping "Wakey, Wakey, Lash up and stow" which greets the matelots as they roll over in their hammo...ART23824
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Boss boy "Aritu", Morobe boy
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Maker: Pratt, Douglas
Portrait depicting a New Guinean smoking a pipe. The artist has identified him as 'Boss boy "Aritu", Morobe boy'.ART28064
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Boston pilots back from Salamaua (Flight Officer John McMaster, Flight Lieutenant Robert Wines and Flight Lieutenant Henry Craig)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
This picture tells its own story, showing four pilots of the Royal Australian Air Force just back from a strike over Salamaua and directly after the interrogation. Included in the picture are:- Flying...ART22742
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Bottling serum
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Shows two unidentified medical staff bottling serum in a sterilisation and heated chamber, 2 Australian Blood and Serum Preparation Unit, Sydney Hospital.ART22676
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[Bottling serum]; verso: [Sealing and labelling bottles of blood serum]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts an incomplete sketch of an unidentified medical staff bottling serum in a sterilisation and heated chamber, 2 Australian Blood and Serum Preparation Unit, Sydney Hospital. Verso: sketch of a ...ART29200.009
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"Boudda" from Amau, Papua
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Profile portrait of a man from Amau, Central Papua New Guinea with decorative comb in hair. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activ...ART96155
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Bougainville battlefield
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Showing the desolation of Artillery Ridge, which was captured by 9th Australian Infantry Battalion. A track has been cut around the side of the ridge by the Pioneers to avoid the steep climb over the ...ART22656
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Bow river, Banff
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Royal Australian Air Force trainees in Canada under the Empire Air Training Scheme on leave at Banff, going canoeing on the Bow River. Portion of the Canadian Rockies can be seen in the background. Ra...ART21958
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Boxing day
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Maker: Aria, George Aubrey Aria, George Aubrey
A cartoon depicting Churchill and Roosevelt putting a lid on a coffin marked 'Axis'.ART92369
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[Boxing under the palms]
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a drawing of a boxing match under the palms, New Guinea.ART90432
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Boy
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
Shows a portrait of an unidentified Papuan boy at Port Moresby.ART29300
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Boy from Arawe
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Maker: Walker, Ralph
Sketch of a native male from Arawe, New Britain where the skull is bound in infancy to produce this peculiar elongated effect.ART29152
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Boy of Morata
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of a young man. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activities of the Australian and American troops, Curtis took every oppo...ART96160
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Boy of Morata (about 12 years)
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of a twelve year old boy. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activities of the Australian and American troops, Curtis took ...ART96166
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Boys bathing pool
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian soldiers bathing in a pool in Babiang, New Guinea. A study for the painting '2/10th Australian Commando Squadron: wash and clean up'.ART90282
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Boy! send this cable to Australia - there's nothing to tell them
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Maker: Aria, George Aubrey Aria, George Aubrey
A cartoon depicting a British man with a monacle giving a cable to a Malaysian boy to send to Australia.ART92363
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Bravo! British Shipyards
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office Wm. Brown & Co. Ltd.
British Second World War poster issued by The Admiralty to pay tribute to the work of British shipyards. The poster depicts the dramatic shillouette of a large ship in a shipyard superimposed into its...ARTV03438
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Bravo! British shipyards
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office Wm. Brown & Co. Ltd.
British Second World War poster issued by The Admiralty to pay tribute to the work of British shipyards. The poster depicts the dramatic shillouette of a large ship in a shipyard superimposed into its...ARTV01535
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Breadfruit, Lae
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Sketch of two breadfruit trees at Lae, New Guinea.ART92260
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Bread Zoning released 1,514 carters for Victory!
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Maker: Department of War Organisation of Industry
During the Second World War in Australia breat zoning was introduced and bakers could only bake within zoned quotas. The point of this was to utilise the staffing resources on work that directly assis...ARTV01591
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"Break down the noise!"
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Maker: Garvey, Joe
Depicts two seated soldiers listening to Frank Sinatra on the radio while fighting, shells, bombs and explosions occur in the background behind them. Joseph Francis Garvey (b. 1912) was a commercial a...ARTI03256
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Bren gun
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
A study of a Bren gun used in the Middle East during the Second World War.ART90272
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Bren gun carrier
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
A Bren gun carrier in North Africa during the Second World War.ART90271
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Bren gun carriers from 6th Div. Cav. crossing River Orontes near Hermel
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Maker: Dargie, William
Painting of bren gun carriers from the 6th Australian Division crossing the River Orontes near the village of Hermel. The river here is crossed by an old Roman bridge.ART22370
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Bren gunner
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Maker: Baird, John
A soldier is depicted firing a Bren gun using an anti aircraft tripod.ART27979
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Bren gunners in action on Acid Feature, Balikpapan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
This work is one of a series of drawings of members of 7 Platoon, A Coy, 2/33rd Australian Infantry Battalion, done in July 1945 in Balikpapan. In a letter to Treloar, 28 July, 1945, 205/2/13 Watson w...ART29795
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Bren gunners in action on Acid Feature, Balikpapan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Sketched portrait of two Australian soldiers taking cover behind shrubs. One soldier is aiming his gun while the other soldier watches from behind him.ART29796
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Bren magazine and ammo boxes
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Maker: Baird, John
Sketch depicting two ammunition boxes and a Bren gun magazine.ART27928
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[Bribie Island landscape and sand dune]
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Maker: Robinson, David Keith
A watercolour sketches of the rolling dunes sand dunes and coastal landscape at Bribie Island, during the Second World War. During the Second World War, Bribie Island, off the coast of Queensland, was...ART96780
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[Bribie Island sand dunes]
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Maker: Robinson, David Keith
Pen and ink sketch of the rolling sand dunes and coastal landscape at Bribie Island during the Second World War. During the Second World War, Bribie Island, off the coast of Queensland, was one of the...ART96779
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Bride - 15 years old
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of a young woman. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activities of the Australian and American troops, Curtis took every o...ART96152
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Bridge above Rouna Falls
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A scene of bridge repairs by engineers over Rouna River, Port Moresby.ART29911
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Bridge Building Engineers
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Road clearing and Bridge Building Engineers above Rouna Falls. Depicts two trucks in foreground and a figure of a man working on the Bridge in middle ground, with a hill to the left with two trucks in...ART28202
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Bridge down on the Rhine, Nimegen
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Showing a destroyed bridge along the Rhine in Germany. In the background bombardment balloons that are supporting chains, which entangle low-flying enemy aircraft.ART25723
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Bridge near Pharsala
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Maker: Dargie, William
This bridge, which was on the mainline of withdrawal of the ANZAC Corps, was the scene of much congestion of traffic during the withdrawal. The German Air Force attempted to bomb the bridge, missed it...ART23995
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Bridge on coastal road, Balikpapan to Samarinda
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Maker: Leviston, G W
A bridge on a coastal road from Balikpapan to Samarinda.ART29678